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	<description>Where tech is more than just the breaking news</description>
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		<title>Migration in progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If things go flaky in the next few days, I&#8217;m in the process of moving TechWhimsy from GoDaddy to Media Temple. So if you find things missing or comments disabled, don&#8217;t panic. In theory this should be somewhat painless.
Things should be fine but you never know&#8230;
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		<title>Slacktivism: you get the engagement you deserve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Slacktivism: n. 1. halfhearted activism.
(Wikitionary see also Slacktivism on Wikipedia)
At the recent Digital Citizens event “Social media for social good”, many worthwhile and interesting  issues were discussed that revolved around how Not For Profits (NFPs) could use social media to raise awareness of their particular issues and use that awareness to try and achieve some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techwhimsy.com/slacktivism-you-get-the-engagement-you-deserve</link>
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		<title>Is the iPad the gateway to the smart house of the future?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of the most memorable moments of future computing in sci-fi film emphasise ease of use rather than raw power, features and hackability.
Think &#8220;enhance&#8221; in Bladerunner&#8230;

(sorry about the quality)
or the classic touch user interface in the Minority Report&#8230;

Most people don&#8217;t want fancy computers, they want things that just work without too much effort. Everyone knows [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techwhimsy.com/ipad-gateway-to-future</link>
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		<title>Connections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Social media allows us to make many connections but are they meaningful ones?
From personal experience, more than ever before we can make new social connections and befriend people over a wide range of distance, culture and beliefs. I now know people in most capital cities of Australia, and in a number of regional cities, too.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who gains the most from your lifestream?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Lifestreaming&#8221; was all the rage several years ago. Services like Jaiku, Second&#124;Brain and FriendFeed cropped up and allowed people to centralise notifications of their online activities.
Harnessing the technology of Application Programming Interfaces (or APIs) from various web services, it became possible to alert people when you uploaded a photo to Flickr, favourited a video on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techwhimsy.com/who-gains-the-most-from-your-lifestream</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on the iPad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is mainly just to get ideas out of my brain and onto a page somewhere for my future reference. It&#8217;s this or talk to my wife about it and at least on the internet I can pretend I can&#8217;t see your eyes glaze over 30 seconds into the conversation.
A new Apple product stirs up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I love typography</title>
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I have a love/hate relationship with typography.
I love how good a well designed font looks on the page or on the screen. I love how the spaces between letters mean as much as the letters themselves. I love how simple lines, artfully connected, transform graphics to glyphs, transporting language across time and space. I love [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t blame technology for your lack of self-control</title>
		<description><![CDATA[News sites. RSS feeds. Email. Microblogging. Social networks. BitTorrent. iView (or Hulu or BBC iPlayer). Time sinks, each and every one of them, providing as much or as little value to your daily existence as you are prepared to let them.
“Information overload” is a fantasy, an illusion, and deep down inside you know it, too.
Crying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techwhimsy.com/dont-blame-technology-for-your-lack-of-self-control</link>
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		<title>Common platforms are a good thing. Right?</title>
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Adobe AIR for Linux beta released (labs.adobe.com)
I can see the attraction of developing from a known baseline that is guaranteed to work, look and feel exactly the same across different platforms. One set of bugs to fix, one set of UI changes to make, only one lot of updates to push live. Less development time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techwhimsy.com/common-platforms-are-a-good-thing-right</link>
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		<title>Review: Bigpond Music DRM-free mp3s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Note: all prices in this post refer to Australian dollars)
(Note 2: This review has taken nearly a month from purchase to publication. Some features may have changed in the meantime that I wasn&#8217;t aware of. If that is the case please feel free to let me know in the comments)
While US residents have had access [...]]]></description>
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